25 հունվար, 2020 02:00
Armenian Investigators Search Constitutional Court President’s Residence
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) conducted a search of the residence of the country’s Constitutional Court President Hrayr Tovmasyan on January 24 in Yerevan. Tovmasyan was interrogated by the SIS multiple times, starting in December 2019, on charges related to “abuse of power”. The criminal case is connected to Tovmasyan's tenure as Minister of Justice from 2010 to 2013. According to the Criminal Code of Armenia, Tovmasyan could face a sentence of six years in prison, in addition to being removed from his position as President of the Constitutional Court. Following the search, Tovmasyan told journalists, “Those in power today are attempting to get rid of me as President of the Constitutional Court. And all this is being done very unjustly.”
